Senior Manager RF Engineering (RFID)

Location: Hybrid — on-site three days per week at the Holtsville, New York office and remote two days per week within the US; approximately 20% domestic/international travel may be required.

Salary: $156,960–$235,440 annual base pay, plus a target annual cash incentive equal to 20% of base pay.

Company

hirify.global develops RFID and other identification, tracking, and asset-management technology for office, retail, warehouse, production, and logistics environments.

What you will do

• Direct the RF department, associated operating budget, development programs, and strategic initiatives.
• Lead a team designing, developing, evaluating, and modifying RF- and wireless-enabled products.
• Supervise product design and ensure the integrity of team deliverables against customer, wireless standards, regulatory, and network-operator requirements.
• Determine technical approaches for RF and wireless product solutions using complex engineering analysis and computer simulation.
• Develop operational policies and programs that improve processes, reduce costs and cycle time, and improve customer satisfaction.
• Contribute RF wireless expertise to product strategy, integrated business solutions, profitability, and cost containment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• Minimum 12+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years of applicable hands-on industry experience in embedded RF/wireless circuit design and system integration.
• High proficiency in verbal and written communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Expertise in electromagnetic fields and microwaves, RF/wireless system design, radio transceiver design, circuit design, PCB design, EM simulation, troubleshooting, budget control, and project planning.
• Deep low-level RF circuit design expertise is required.
• Experience leading RF engineering activities, managing budgets, developing policies, and delivering complex engineering programs.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in an engineering discipline.
• Expertise architecting high-power, high-sensitivity RF transceivers for wireless tracking systems, specifically UHF RFID at 860–960 MHz and Ultra-Wideband.
• Knowledge of front-end RF design, LNA/PA matching networks, directional couplers, and mitigation of self-jamming and co-site interference among RFID, BLE, Wi-Fi 6/6E, and Cellular 5G/LTE radios.
• Hands-on experience with multilayer rigid and rigid-flex board layouts, controlled-impedance transmission lines, RF grounding, and phase-matched routing for multi-port antenna arrays.
• Experience with antenna synthesis, array design, beamforming, beamsteering, patch and planar inverted-F antennas, and Ansys HFSS, CST Studio Suite, or Keysight ADS.
• Experience troubleshooting power delivery networks for high-output power amplifiers and sensitive receiver chains, including suppression of switching-regulator harmonics and digital clock bleed-through.
• Mastery of RF test benches using VNAs, high-speed RTSAs, and anechoic OTA chambers, including automated calibration and production test routines.
• Knowledge of worldwide FHSS and ultra-wideband radio regulations, including FCC Part 15, ETSI EN 302 208, the RED directive, and SAR compliance.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with adaptable hours, Summer Flex Fridays, Focus Fridays, and an annual companywide well-being day.
• Healthcare, wellness programs, inclusion networks, continued learning and development, community service days, insurance, parental leave, employee assistance, and paid time off, depending on country.
• Performance-based annual cash incentive with a target of 20% of base pay; some roles may also receive long-term incentive equity awards.
• Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodation for candidates and employees with disabilities.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted only through Zebra’s applicant tracking system.
• Recruiters communicate through @zebra.com email accounts and do not request personal identifying information by email or outside the application system.